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By Thiantara Kruathorn, Country Manager of Fortinet Singapore & Brunei Source: Fortinet. Kruathorn. Business continuity and disaster recovery plans are designed to address an organisation’s need to quickly suspend normal on-site operations in the event of a power outage, illness, or natural disaster that may make it unsafe for employees to travel on-site. This plan needs to include the ability to quickly establish a secure, remote workforce. Transitioning administrative staff, technical support teams, HR, marketing departments, and other workers who traditionally work from a physical office – along with access to their data and networked resources – to alternate work sites can be a daunting task. In addition to networking considerations, organisations should be aware that cybercriminals are prepared to exploit the weaknesses and security gaps that often arise during such events. Unprepared users and unsecured systems can quickly become conduits for malware and malicious ...

Singapore-based Lark Technologies has made its all-in-one enterprise-grade work tool for seamless remote collaboration free across Southeast Asia. Available in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, Lark offers unlimited video calls and online collaboration among other features to enable seamless collaboration. Lark can help customers check team members' schedules within a chat, launch a video call from a calendar event, and co-edit a document during video calls. Joey Lim, Commercial Lead, APAC, Lark, estimated that 90% of employees in the Asia Pacific region are currently working from home, and said the company is helping customers get their best work done even when their teams are not physically together. "It's never been easier to start remote working," she said. “With remote working in place, organisations are grappling to ensure that their employees remain productive while working remotely. The same also applies in schools and...

Equinix , the global interconnection and data centre company, today announced the opening of the company’s fourth International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in Singapore, SG4. Jeremy Deutsch, President, Equinix Asia-Pacific said, “Asia-Pacific is paving the way for smart cities as the pace of digital transformation continues to accelerate. At Equinix, we are dedicated to supporting this development by connecting people and businesses at the digital edge through our interconnection solutions. "Equinix achieved notable momentum in Asia-Pacific in 2019, and we are confident that our growing footprint will enable businesses and customers to connect with the wider region and have access to the vast interconnection opportunities needed to innovate and grow.” With an initial investment of US$74 million, the new facility addresses the rising demand for digital transformation and interconnection of businesses, and also plays a key role in supporting Singapore’s Sma...

TIBCO Software , a global provider of enterprise data that empowers its customers to connect, unify, and confidently predict business outcomes, has received several Gartner mentions early this year. The company was recognised as a Leader in Gartner’s 2020 Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms * for the second year in a row. The company sees this as further validation that its artificial intelligence (AI), data science, and machine learning (ML) capabilities are helping its customers and partners continually deliver an exceptional customer experience and solve difficult business challenges with data science. “TIBCO is committed to helping enterprises realise the value of their data science initiatives by improving productivity of knowledge workers and operationalising analytic insights. One of our guiding principles is to make AI a foundation of our products. By infusing AI at the core of our data science products, we can automate basic tasks, and free up ti...

Singaporean enterprise solutions company 7-Network , in conjunction with HUAWEI, is offering its flagship codeless development platform, JET Workflow , free-of-charge to local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). 7-Network focuses on enabling digital transformation affordably using augmented reality, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and 3D technology. Its JET Workflow COVID-19 Management Site provides ready-to-use forms for visitor-logging and contact-tracing where necessary, and systems for employee temperature monitoring and illness reporting. This allows SME users can easily manage their employees who are working from home due to business continuity planning (BCP) arrangements, Stay-Home Notices or Quarantine Orders *, all without the traditional reliance on professional developers. HUAWEI CLOUD is collaborating with its ecosystem partners in Singapore to deliver digital solutions accessible to all as a timely response to local SMEs’ need to safeguard their employ...

Sensely has announced that its customised COVID-19 screening and educational tools are being used by enterprises around the world.   Using Sensely's platform, enterprises can seamlessly incorporate the unique avatar and speech-based Sensely chat interface into their existing websites or mobile apps. The company announced that the National Institute of Biomedical Innovation, Health, and Nutrition, in conjunction with Sensely, system integrators, and the Japanese Medical Association, has launched a Japanese language tool that is being widely distributed in Japan. For enterprises that wish to deploy COVID-19 tools, but lack in-house technical resources, Sensely also provides a conversation design and technical team that can rapidly create full solutions that are deployable via an URL. The technology can be accessed through multiple channels such as web, social, text, email, QR code, and chat platforms. "Our partners believe in the power of conversational engagement, and the ...

X0PA AI , an artificial intelligence (AI) human resources (HR) startup headquartered in Singapore, has completed a product integration with Beamery. Beamery' s Talent Operating System allows enterprises to attract, engage, and retain top talent, and manage the entire talent journey on one unified platform, while X0PA Ai is an intelligent software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that aims to achieve objective HR selections for businesses and institutes of higher education. The integration helps recruiters to source, screen, attract, engage and build a strong talent pipeline. Recruiters can now seamlessly navigate and synch jobs, and AI-sourced and shortlisted candidates between X0PA and Beamery's candidate relationship management (CRM) system. Existing Beamery customers can now leverage on X0PA's AI-based matching and prescreening capabilities to source new candidates as well as retarget existing talents across databases. X0PA customers, on the other hand, can take adva...